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Unite calls on government to take action to prevent overcrowding of buses

By Union Web
May 14, 2020
Unite has called on the UK government to provide funding for extra bus services and to make the wearing of face masks mandatory to prevent the transmission of ...
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Education unions call on government to delay reopening schools

By Union Web
May 13, 2020
Eight major trade unions with members working in the education sector have published a joint statement calling on the government to “step back” from its plan for a ...
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Unite to challenge the redundancy of 500 agency workers at Airbus Broughton

By Union Web
April 29, 2020
Unite have revealed that Airbus are set to make up to 500 agency workers redundant, after previously furloughing 3,200 of their workers. As many as 500 agency workers ...
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Unite denounces British Airways redundancies as “unlawful and immoral”

By Union Web
April 29, 2020
British Airways’ parent company IAG yesterday announced plans to make up to 12,000 workers redundant due to the coronavirus crisis. Unite’s general secretary Len McCluskey has today denounced ...
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Unite hits out at “dangerous” return to construction sites and demands coronavirus testing is extended to construction workers

By Union Web
April 28, 2020
Unite the Union says the construction industry is putting the desire to build new homes ahead of workers’ safety amid the COVID-19 outbreak, and has demanded the government ...
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Unite warns that hotel staff are “risking lives” over lack of PPE

By Union Web
April 20, 2020
Unite the Union has warned that hotels providing accommodation for NHS staff, and those acting as coronavirus isolation centres or providing emergency housing during the pandemic, are “risking ...
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Workers paid via umbrella companies are eligible for furlough payments, following lobbying by Unite

By Union Web
April 10, 2020
Following lobbying by Unite, workers who are paid through an ‘umbrella’ company are now eligible for the government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and can be furloughed during the ...
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British Airways staff have overwhelmingly backed coronavirus furlough deal – Unite

By Union Web
April 8, 2020
Unite have confirmed that British Airways staff have voted to back the furlough deal that will see thousands paid 80% of their wages during the coronavirus shutdown. Employees ...
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Unions reveal details of British Airways furlough deal

By Union Web
April 2, 2020
Trade unions Unite and GMB have released details of the deal struck with British Airways to protect workers during the coronavirus crisis. British Airways has agreed that there ...
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Unite’s Howard Beckett tells aviation worker’s “we won’t fail you” in industry negotiations

By Union Web
March 26, 2020
Unite assistant general secretary Howard Beckett has told members working in the aviation industry that the union will “stand by them” in negotiations over redundancy pay. In a ...
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